I'm just starting out Thimbleweed Park . I felt I owed it to Ron Gilbert to pay full price for one of his games. Even if I bought the Mega Monkey Windows '95 Monkey Island megapack ( Secret , LeChuck's Revenge + Curse all in one giant box). And the Special Edition of the first two Monkey Islands on ...

↶ I remember the big shock I had when I saw the size of Doom 3 (~2 GB?). Yeah, Doom 3 and Max Payne 2 ate large chunks of my drive. They're one of the few games I've bought on the day of release. Queued up outside the store and everything! Doom 3's DRM was a nightmare. I remember it refused to inst...

My first gaming PC's hard drive was 60gb. This was 2003. I could fit my entire games library (about 70 CD-ROMS) on it, and still have room for an MP3 library of about 6,000, the entire series of Samurai Jack and The Tick , plus a whole bunch o' films. My largest game was Return to Castle Wolfenstein...

↶ Geez, do the mods really accept posts like "you are a greedy, callous, piece of human garbage." now? I remember years ago when XKCD was pretty sane and civil. This barely rates youtube comment quality. You should be ashamed of yourselves. If you have a problem with a post, you can repor...

The most conservative estimate of gold is 171,300 tonnes , which can build a 20m 3 cube (8,000m 3 ). The White Tower keep within the Tower of London is 36m x 32m x 27m , or 31,104m 3 . Obviously, the Tower is hollow, so if we make the walls, say, average out to 2m thick, with a 1m-thick roof, we tak...

Anyone know if the melody to Girls in Airports - Grass by the Roses has been used elsewhere? I recognise the tune, but am fairly sure I've heard it sung before. So much so that this song feels like an instrumental cover of a song made several decades ago.

Electrofishing for Whales https://what-if.xkcd.com/imgs/a/156/pond.png Seems there's a new What If? out, and as nobody's staked their claim, I'll have a shot at creating the thread myself, seeing as I spent a good chunk of the day cleaning up this subfora. Now, let's see if I don't fall afoul of my...

Your post is one of many hundreds that come through a day. Don't post a link in your first post, and it won't get rejected: it's right there in the rules at the top of every page. It's even in the discussion at the top of this page . Unless it's an easily-identifiable URL like Wikipedia or YouTube, ...

I was thinking of getting it. Completed Assassin's Creed Brotherhood . All I need to do to get my 100% completion rate is to collect ~8 or so Borgia flags from the Romulus levels, achieve 100% sync with about ~15 missions, and do all the things that the thieves' guild/courtesans require me to do. Wh...

↶ I work in the community with the poorest, sickest, craziest, more marginalized people in society, drunks, drug addicts, schizophrenics, the bipolar, sex workers, abuse victims, the homeless, fighting for their health and safety every single day http://i.imgur.com/hsRIaml.png Call it brilliant int...

I've mentioned elephant gun three times on this forum, but I've never--in text form--considered the many possibilities to what the noun 'elephant gun' could be. Elephant gun (n.) ⋅ A gun used specifically to fire ammunition at elephants ⋅ A gun that is in the shape of an elephant...

Brilliant, thanks. I suppose then it could be Hanoi (1983). But although familiar, I recall the puzzle as being part of a larger BBC Micro adventure, and there being 3D-ish (or at least isometric) objects to move.

⋅ Background : This is an educational/puzzle-solving game for the BBC Micro (Acorn computer). At first I thought it was Through the Dragon's Eye , but having played through that just now I can confirm it's not. I played it at school, around 1990-1991. It's most likely a 'Look and Read' e...

↶ Citing no new evidence, Trump continues to say there were millions of illegal votes I don't know, is there some procedure to impeach a president because of mental illness? That sounds like the kind of thing Trump tweeted before he became president. http://i.imgur.com/BqkRj01.png?1

I'm on the last leg of Brotherhood . Ezio is tricked out and Rome is entirely out of the Borgia's control. Now I'm maxed out, it should be a cakewalk, but I only seem to play it in fits and bursts. Which explains why I'm only as far as the third game in a 99+ game series. I'm annoyed that they stopp...